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Comment by YouAreGreat

> "A type system is a syntactic method for enforcing levels of abstraction in programs. " [1]

> What syntactic methods are used in dynamically "typed" languages?

Interesting. You may have unwittingly provided one of the best justifications for the term "dynamically typed" I've seen so far.

That's because operations that violate a (safe) dynamically typed language's chosen set of abstractions (built using bits, church encoding, whatever) are syntactically inaccessible.

parent YouAreGreat 8 years ago

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